The word 'caucasus' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the geographical region of the Caucasus Mountains, which stretches between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea and encompasses parts of Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbajan, and Turkey. Example sentence: The Caucasus region has a long and varied history of conflict and cooperation between its many ethnic groups.
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] ratios in ArmeniaSIR – You drew attention to the practice of aborting female foetuses and the resulting sex imbalances in the Caucasus ("Gendercide in the Caucasus", September 21st).
The corollary to spurning Russian gas piped through South Stream is favouring non-Russian schemes like the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline, due for completion by 2018, which will bring Europe 10-20bcm a year from the Caucasus via Turkey.
A Turkish appeal last month for a "Caucasus stability pact" between Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey was a veiled warning to the Russians to cease meddling in countries to the south of Chechnya.
WHENEVER the feuds of the Russian Caucasus turn into a hideous drama affecting hundreds of previously uninvolved people, only two things are certain.
Dealers from the bazaars of Istanbul and the Caucasus, not to mention diplomats and visiting journalists, have long since stripped Iraq's former middle class of its riches.
And it has vocal if small minorities from all over the region, including Abkhaz and Ossetians.Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has just been to Moscow and Tbilisi to promote a "Caucasus Stability and Co-operation Platform", a scheme that calls for new methods of crisis management and conflict resolution.
Azerbaijan is viewd by many as a strategic partner in the south-Caucasus, including NATO, which counts on Azerbaijan's east-west corridor to deliver about 30% of the coalition's supplies bound for Afghanistan.Although some may see Azerbaijan's journey towards genuine democracy as some years away, we are nonetheless achieving rapid economic growth after a hard transition process.
Gasan Magomedov, a 20-year-old midfielder for the Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala, has been shot and killed near his home in the volatile North Caucasus.
Among the offences were racial chants, banners featuring celtic crosses and other far-right and neo-Nazi symbols, graffiti with messages such as "Anzhi on the knife" and assaults on anti-fascists and people from the Caucasus and Central Asia.
There are approximately 190,000 ethnic Greeks and Pontic Greeks in Russia concentrated along the country's Black Sea coast and in the North Caucasus Stavropol region.
Splitting her time between Moscow and Makachkala, in the mountainous southern republic of Dagestan, she provides critical reflections on the identity and collective memory of modern Caucasus and Russia.
